Meet The Awesome Youkai And Characters Of Youkai Watch

The theme behind Youkai Watch is “Everyday life with Youkai”. The game is set in an average town called Sakura New Town, which might seem normal to most people, but it is actually bustling with all kinds of Japanese folklore monsters, known as youkai.

Here’s a look at some of the characters and youkai that will be involved in Youkai Watch’s story.

Keita Amano

The 11 year-old 5th grader, who is one of the two main characters of Youkai Watch. He’s a relatively straightforward character who seems to be quite the unlucky young boy.

Fumika Kodama

Fumi is also an 11 year-old fifth grader, who happens to be Keita’s classmate. She is Youkai Watch’s alternate main character for players who pick the female gender to start the game.

Whisper

Whisper is a youkai who suddenly appeared from the inside of a capsule ball machine and follows Keita around. He helps the young boy by explaining to him the many wonders of the youkai world.

Jibanyan

Jibanyan is a spiritual ghost of a cat who died after being hit by a car. He seems to be able to cause different sorts of curses to anyone by having them touch his waistband.

Kanchi Imata and Gorota Kumajima

Kanchi is part of a theory group who goes by the principle of realism. He doesn’t believe in spirits, at all. Gorota is the fearful ringleader of the kids, who Keita and the others call ‘Kuma’.

Here are some more youkai who spend their lives in Sakura New Town:

Nogappa

Nogappa always feels the need to go anywhere that water can be found. When he gets tired, he gets water from his bottle to splash on his head to refresh himself.

Tsuchinoko

Being around this youkai will make you greatly lucky. It seems to bring luck wherever it goes.

Himojii

This old-man youkai has the ability of… being able to make people hungry. However, it seems like that’s all he can do.

Bakurobaba

Bakurobaba has the ability to possess faces. When she possesses someone’s face, that person starts to mindlessly speak their mind, putting them in a state where secrets can no longer be kept.

Donyoriinu

Donyoriinu is a giant youkai that haunts rooms. When she’s inside a room, she expands, which causes the surrounding atmosphere to ‘worsen’.

Negativuun

This youkai has the ability to amplify any negative parts of a person’s heart. Being haunted by Negativuun will cause you to have nothing but negative thoughts.

Keita didn’t always know about the many youkai that live around him. Here’s a look at his story and how it started:

One Summer day, Keita was looking for rare insects in the deep ends of a forest located behind the shrine.

“Heheh, are you satisfied by just hunting bugs? Don’t you want to look for something more interesting?” Whisper says. After he hands Keita the Youkai Watch, it would mark the beginning of a slightly different everyday life.

The Youkai Watch is a device that allows you to see the many youkai out there, who are invisible to the naked eye.

Upon further inspecting the above scenario with the Youkai Watch, you’ll notice a violet color in the radar. After the gauge fills up around the circle, it reveals Donyoriinu hidden in the corner of the room. Could she be the cause of the couple’s dispute?

You can also use the Youkai Watch to spot youkai insects around trees and fish in the water. There are also non-youkai insects and fish that can be caught, as well.

Quests will be done by listening to people around Sakura New Town and accepting their requests to solve various things that have been troubling them.

This is where Keita and his Youkai Watch will come in handy to help solve their troubles, which are often caused by the youkai, themselves.

Youkai Watch also offers a 3DS camera mode, called “Youkai Lense”, which allows you to look for any youkai that might be hiding in your world. If you find any youkai with your 3DS camera, you’ll be rewarded with various items.

Looks pretty cool, I hope it comes out in English… but it probably won’t…

Nickie

Crossing my fingers for a localization. I was already interested in it from before but honestly my want has sky rocketed that you can be a female protagonist now.

rurin

This is so cute! I love how the town looks, too – it’d be fun to explore.

Like others, I hope this gets localized!

Pockystix

hmmm

I will say that some of those just look like Pokemon. . . on some sort of drugs. . .

That being said, I like what I see XD

Christopher Nunes

I wasn’t interest before in this game, but reading about it here… I’m beginning to take a liking to this game and its Youkai critter, also helps that I like Touhou which also has Youkai as part of the world’s population.

I hope they will localize this and keep the title called “Youkai Watch”… I don’t want to see “Demon Watch” or something like that, Youkai is just fine.

Reno Evangelista

The monster designs are a much better draw than anything that’s been released about this so far.

Gilgamesh2025

Oh my gosh, what is this?

yellowmage

Really hope this gets localized!

I like the look of ultra-serious muscular tofu block!

Strain42

Maybe if I yell loud enough the game will get localized…

curecurry

Great series. I’ve made a Youkai Watch Fan Community (youkaiwatch.livejournal.com), will anyone be interested to join?